150 years ago Weather and trade – Trade is still as depressed as ever, and we are confident that there were never less working in Alva than this present time.

Death from exposure – On the evening of Monday last, the dead body of an old man, a hawker of heather brooms, residing at Blairingone, was discovered in a field on the South Side of the Devon, to the east of Dollar brickwork.

County ball – This ball was held in the Town Hall on the evening of Friday 13th inst., and came off with a great eclat – all the elite of the county being present.

100 years ago Clackmannan, Burns Night – The weekly meeting of the Co-operative Women’s Guild was held in the Co-operative Hall on Thursday evening, and took the form of a Burns Night and Social.

Kincardine, Sunday School Treat – The scholars attending the Parish Church Sunday School were entertained in the church last Friday night.

Ploughing Competition – It will be observed from an ad in another column, that the annual competition under the auspices of the Clackmannanshire Ploughing Association will be held (weather permitting) on a field on the farm of Craigrie, Clackmannan, kindly granted by Mr J. W. Prentice, on Tuesday first.

50 years ago A tenant moving out of an Alloa house left it in such a state that £100 will be needed to make it habitable.

A 40-year-old housewife, for whose arrest a warrant had been issued in connection with the theft of gas, appeared at Alloa Sheriff Court on Wednesday.

Passengers clothing and seats were stained with beer and pieces of glass from broken beer bottles were scattered around during a disturbance in the lower deck of a double-decker bus which was travelling between Alva and Stirling one Saturday night.

25 years ago Plans to spend £1.7m on a new access road for Alloa Town Centre are hanging in the balance while Central Region and Clackmannan District Council disagree over the proposed layout.

Central Regional Council has written to the District Council urging them to secure the safety of the remaining facilities at Paton Sports Ground...

Clackmannanshire is a good place to live... and now there are statistics to prove it!

10 years ago Five out of seven NHS dental practices in the Wee County are still taking on new NHS patients – in contrast to a national report which revealed 70 per cent of dentists are turning away new patients.

The owners of Kilbagie Recycling Fibres have pledged to re-employ 19 workers made redundant this week, on completion of a multi-million pound expansion of the site.

Hundreds of pounds worth of damage has been caused to council owned buildings in the Wee County during a week-long spate of vandalism.